The latest in:
Headend
-
07/12/2012
Events 07/12/12
Attendees at this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in October will have a hard time choosing between the 27 workshops set in Fla.’s Orange County Convention Center; the group says this is a record number of sessions. Included are workshops that address such near-term issues as bandwidth consumption, signal leakage and Wi-Fi; business-services, including provisioning, service […]
-
07/09/2012
New Stuff 07/09/12
Cooper B-Line recently introduced new rack security doors as part of its latest line of network-rack-security products. Installing on the front or back of a two-post rack, the rack security door helps ensure hardware inside the rack isn’t accessible once the door is locked. Each door includes adjustable brackets, and installers can secure the product […]
-
04/12/2012
Toolset Provides ITU-Based Video Quality Testing
With the help of an algorithm recently recommended by the ITU-T, the Q-Master2 toolset from Silicon Valley-based QoE Systems measures video quality using a single metric: the Mean Opinion Score (MOS) that gauges video quality as perceived by an actual viewer. The Q-Master2 uses predetermined video clips for testing while also enabling the use of […]
-
12/23/2011
KPN Deploys Cisco's CRS-3
Dutch service provider KPN has chosen the Cisco CRS-3 multi-chassis carrier routing system for the heart of its Internet peering network. The CRS-3 solution will transport all of KPN’s IP traffic to the Internet as part of KPN’s Internet Cluster Environment, supporting future consolidation and streamlining the network and services without the need for extra […]
-
12/13/2011
Harmonic Supports European Shopping Network
Germany’s HSE24 (Home Shopping Europe) has transitioned its multiple home shopping networks onto a Harmonic production storage and playout platform. A Harmonic Spectrum media server system provides continuous playout for the four broadcast channels within the HSE24 network, and a Harmonic MediaGrid active storage system serves as post-production storage for recorded on-air content and supports […]
-
11/30/2011
Casa Sees Opportunity in Down-Market Technology
Even though Casa Systems was showing a converged cable access platform (CCAP) line card in a back room at the recent Cable-Tec Expo, which its Founder and CEO Jerry Guo said would be released in the first quarter of 2012, he seemed almost more excited about the company’s new small-form-factor cable modem termination system (CMTS) […]